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Then he shifted him of those robes,Creation of an earle, and namelie the earle of La|cester. and put on the robes of estate of an earle, and being led by the earle of Sussex on the right hand, and the erle of Hunting|ton on his left hand, the earle of Warwike bearing his sword the pomell vpward, and the girdle about the same, all in their robes of estate, the lord Clinton lord admerall in his parlement robes, bearing his cap with the coronall, Garter before him bearing his patent, and the other officers of armes before him, they proceeded as afore into the chamber of presence, where, after they had made their obeisance, the said earle knéeled downe, and Garter deliuered his pa|tent to the lord chamberleine, who gaue the same to the quéenes maiestie, & hir highnesse gaue the same to sir William Cecill secretarie to read, who read the same. And at the words Cincturam gladij, the earle of Warwike presented the sword to the quéenes highnesse,The quéene hir selfe gir|teth the sword and girdle about the earles necke. who girt the same about the necke of the said new earle, putting the point vnder his left arme, and after hir maiestie put on his cap with the coro|nall. Then his patent was read out to the end, and then the said secretarie deliuered it againe to the quéene, and hir highnesse gaue it to the said new erle of Leicester, who gaue hir humble thanks for it.

And then he arose and went into the councell chamber to dinner, the trumpets sounding before, and at dinner he sat in his kirtle, and there accompa|nied him the foresaid ambassador of France, and the said Italian, with diuerse other erles and lords. And after the second course, Garter with the other offi|cers of armes, proclamed the quéenes maiesties stile, and after, the stile of the said earle,The officers fées fiftéene pounds at this creation for the which they had fiftéene pounds, to wit, for his baronie fiue pounds, & for his earledome ten pounds, and Garter had his gowne of blacke veluet garded with thrée gards of the same, laid on with lace, lined through with blacke taffata, and garded on the inner side with the same, and on the sléeues eight and thirtie paire of aglets of gold. The earles stile was as fol|loweth: Du tresnoble & puissant seigneur Robert conte de Leicestre, baron de Denbigh, cheualier du tresnoble ordre de la iarretièrre, & grand esquier de la royne nostre souuereigne. On whole scutchion, conteining sundrie cotes, inui|roned with the cognisances of both orders, as well S. Michaels as S. Georges, with other ornaments, were made these verses, now common to be read:

Quot clypeos atauûm clypeo coniungis in vno, [...]
Tot tibi virtutes atauûm sunt pectore iunctae:
EEBO page image 1208Somerij pietas, vis imperterrita Greij,
Intemerata fides Hastingi, nobile pectus
Ferrarij, Quinci probitas, bonitásque Boghani,
Martia Talbotti virtus, fidissima dextra
Beauchampi, Herculei mens inconcussa Guidonis,
Barklaei vigor, & generosa modestia Lisli.]

Compare 1577 edition: 1 The second of October in the afternoone, and on the morrow in the sorenoone, was a solemne obse|quie at Paules church in London, for Ferdinando late emperor departed. ¶Of this emperor it is said, that lieng sicke, Ex Schardio. and so sicke that Zichard a precher of his court then present could not hold him vp: how|beit comming at last to himselfe and somewhat in recouerie,Ferdinand foretelleth the verie vtter|most daie of his own death. he said to the standers by; You thought that I would neuer come againe, naie mine houre is not so soone: I doo certeinlie know that I shall not die before Whitsuntide. Now when he had liued till that daie, and eight daies after, as hauing the verie time of his departure told him by secret reuelation, (and satisfied at full touching the request that Dauid made to God about the length of his life, saieng:

Lord let me know mine end and the number of daies, that I may be [...]tified how long I haue to liue. Da mihi nosse meae quae sint stata tempora vitae,
Et quando vltima sint fata futura mihi)
he said to them that were about him: It is the holie ghosts pleasure that I should not die before saint Iames tide, that as he was a pilgrime among vs, so I with him should passe my pilgrimage out of this my natiue countrie. After which words spoken, his disease grew to greater force and sharpnesse, inso|much that at last, euen at the verie time prefixed, namelie S. Iames daie, he departed this life, after he had liued sixtie yeares, nine moneths, and od daies. He gouerned the empire aboue the space of seauen yeares,The goodlie [...] male and female that God gaue Ferdinand. & had to wife Anne queene of Hun|garie and Boheme, by whom he had fiftéene children, some male; namelie, Maximilian, Ferdinand, Iohn and Charles: also eleuen females; to wit, Elisabeth married to Sigismund king of Poland, Anne, Ma|rie, Mawdline, Catharine, Elenor, Margarite, Bar|bare, Ursule, Helen, and Ione. He is commended for his carefulnesse, his watchfulnesse, his bountiful|nesse, his gentlenesse, his vprightnesse, his discréet|nesse, his peaceablenesse, and other qualities, wherin he had a kind of singularitie. And thus much of him by waie of praise, as I found it readie to my hand.]

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